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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 My Name Is Revenge
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,:Spineless Wonders , 2018 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Writing Violence, Arousing Curiosity, Ashley Kalagian Blunt , single work essay

'Borne out of a manuscript longlisted for the 2017 KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award, Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s My Name Is Revenge is out this month with Spineless Wonders. In December 1980, two men shot a Turkish diplomat near his home in Sydney, and vanished. From this assassination in Australia, one of a series of international terrorist attacks, Kalagian Blunt’s novella traces back to the streets of 1920s Berlin and the Armenian genocide of World War I. The following is an extract from one of three companion essays.' (Publication abstract) 

 (p. 65-88)
The Crime of Crimes, Ashley Kalagian Blunt , single work essay
'The most intensely studied genocide is, without contest, the Holocaust. It's considered by some to be the archetypal genocide, a limit case, in part because the term genocide was first applied in a legal setting during the Nuremberg trials. Our ongoing interest in Nazi crimes against Jews and others seems unlikely to wane, particularly as new evidence is still being released. In 2017, the Weiner Library in London made public the UN War Crimes Commission archive, 900GB of evidence collected to prosecute Nazi government officials. It's a surfeit of documentation that could lead to the rewriting of aspects of Holocaust history.' (Introduction) 
 
 (p. 89-106)
Life After Genocide, Ashley Kalagian Blunt , single work essay
'The discovery that I was racist came as a shock, as you might imagine. I'd just returned to Canada from several years in Asia and Latin America. I had a new job working with migrants, and I was volunteering with refugees. Like many Canadians, cultural diversity awareness campaigns had filled my childhood with posters featuring hands drawn in red,  blue, purple, green - all linked in a perfect circle. I believed in those hands. I thought I was living their message.' (Introduction)
 
 (p. 107-136)
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